Shade-holder.



J. STODDART.

SHADE HOLDER.

APPLIOATION FILED 11u31, 1911.

1,002,090. Patented Aug.29,1911.

srs PATENT ifo JAMESSTODDART, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE ENOS COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

SHADE-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 31, 1911.

Patented Aug. 29, 1911. seriaiNo. 630,529.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES SToDDAn'r, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, Essex county, State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shade-Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in lamp brackets, and particularly to a shade holder construction designed with reference mainly to shades for electric lamp ixtures.

The object of the invention is to provide an etiective shade holder, simple and easily operated.

In the accompanying' drawings, Figure l is a vertical section of my improved shade holder as it appears in operation. Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a detail.

l represents an external holding member or bell arranged to be supported at its small end from above. The lower end of the bell is arranged to receive the smaller end of a shade 2.

3 is an internal holding member or relatively short sleeve-like member having a anged or flared lower end. The upper part of this sleeve-like member is arranged to pass up through that end of a shade 2 located within the lower end of the bell.

4 4 are radial arms carried by the sleevelike member 3. These arms are preferably screw-threaded and designed to receive nuts 5 5. The flaring sides of the bell 1 are recessed or slotted, as indicated at 6 6, to permit said radial arms 4 to lock into the bell 1.

In assembling the parts, the sleeve 3 is removed entirely from the bell. The shade 2 is then put in place, as indicated in Fig. 1. The sleeve 3 is then passed up through the shade, the radial arms 4 passing through the slots 6. The sleeve is then pushed upwardly until the adjacent part of the shade 2 is held in place snugly within the lower end of the bell, in which position said sleeve 3 is locked. The preferable means for locking the sleeve comprises the aforesaid nuts 5 5, which may screw onto the radial arms 4 4. When the nuts 5 5 are screwed home, they engage the outer tapered side-wall of the bell 1 and thereby hold the sleeve 3 up in the proper position to in turn hold the shade tlrmly and yet not so tightly as to endanger breakage. By an arrangement of this character, the glassware or shade may vary materially in shape and thickness and yet be held securely in place inasmuch as the length of the slots 6 allow the sleeve to be locked in place at different elevations relatively to the bell. By this arrangement also, the fixture partakes of a very symmetrical appearance, since the unbroken holding edge of the'sleeve, when viewed from the under side, disguises it-s true function and completely hides any rough or uniinished edge that may be found on the glassware precisely the same as the lower unbroken edge of the bell.

While I have shown a preferred means for locking the sleeve in place, obviously this may be modiied in a variety of ways; indeed, in various other respects the invention is capable of modil'ication without departure from the spirit and scope of the tollowing claims.

What I claim is:

l. In a shade holder, an external bell shaped shell arranged to receive one end of a shade, said shell having slots in its inclined sides; a removable sleeve-like retaining device arranged to pass partially through that part of the shade arranged to be located within the shell, and means for locking said sleeve within said shell, said means including arms radiating from said sleeve and arranged to pass through said slots and be interlocked with the inclined walls of said bell.

2. In a shade holder, an external bell arranged to receive one end of a shade, a re` movable sleeve-like retaining device arranged to pass partially through that part ofthe shade arranged to be located within the bell, means for locking said sleeve wit-hin said bell, said means comprising arms radiating from said sleeve-like device, said bell having slots designed to permit said arms to pass therethrough, one of said arms being screw-threaded, and a nut adapted to said threaded arm.

In a shade. holder for lighting ixtnres, a bell arranged to receive one end of a piece of glassware, the sides of said bell being flared, said flaring sides having slots therein, a removable sleeve having a iared lower end, devices carried by said sleeve and arranged to pass through said slots, and means to hold said devices in said slots and to thereby connect said sleeve to said bell, said CIK and nuts adapted to said screw-threaded l0 arms and arranged to be applied thereto eX,-A ternally of said bell, said nuts engaging the outside of said flaring Wall of said bell.

JAMES STODDART.'

Witnesses:

E. E. MORSE, J. BRUNN.

copies of this patent may 'be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

